Symantec or Norton Uninstall - More Steps When Norton Uninstaller Doesn’t Work
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It seems like people are still having problems getting Symantec or Norton software uninstalled off of their systems. The main problem seems to be that if Symantec or Norton software is not totally cleaned off of the system, it could interfere with other security software or also cause system freeze ups. In one of the forums I frequent, it was mentioned that over at Dave Taylors website he has a fairly good method to follow. So I dropped over to Dave’s site for a look-see. He has posted a step by step approach to uninstall the software which is located here.
Next I took a look around the Net and found this article from WindowsSecrets that covers other issues you may face when trying to get Symantec or Norton stuff off of your system. In this article it states a very good point:
Unfortunately, neither Symantec’s bundled uninstaller — nor a little-known, special utility from the company — removes every single thing.
This I believe where the problem is. It seems that Symantec likes to leave some stuff behind that they feel is necessary to prohibit folks from using there free 30 day trials, over and over again. Isn’t that just ducky. You can read the entire article as well as some great links here.
Over at PC Hell they have more information posted about the problem as well. You can take a look here for this information s well.
Hopefully one of these solutions will work for.
Comments welcome.
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2 Comments
Reid Nunn
June 12th, 2008
at 6:11am
Ron,
I’m Reid Nunn, publisher of Uninstall-Norton. I was reading your articles and was wondering if you might be interested in 2 things:
1. Exchanging links, and
2. Becoming an affiliate.
But before we go there, I want you to know that our product does in fact, completedly uninstal Norton…..except for 7 files that are attached to Windows, that if compromised by malware, can cause the OS to malfunction. It does not hurt to leave those alone…no popups, security system install problems coming from them, etc.
Please take a look. Frankly, we don’t know how to over come the massive advertising of other product that claim to uninstlal norton but don’t really do anything more than remove orphaned registry entries, and maybe files. People want a simple one or two mouse clicks and get taken all the time.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Reid Nunn
850 556 0111
Ron Schenone
June 12th, 2008
at 6:49am
Hello Reid,
May I suggest you contact Chris Pirillo directly:
chris@lockergnome.com
Regards, Ron